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Government Center (MBTA Station)
Government Center station is an MBTA subway station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located at the intersection of Tremont Street, Tremont, Court and Cambridge Streets in the Government Center, Boston, Government Center area. It is a transfer point between the light rail Green Line (MBTA), Green Line and the rapid transit Blue Line (MBTA), Blue Line. With the Green Line platform having opened in 1898, the station is the third-oldest operating subway station (and the second-oldest of the quartet of "hub stations") in the MBTA system; only Park Street station (MBTA), Park Street and Boylston station, Boylston are older. The station previously served Scollay Square before its demolition for the creation of Boston City Hall Plaza. The station was closed on March 22, 2014 for a major renovation, which included retrofitting the station for accessibility and building a new glass headhouse on City Hall Plaza. The new fully accessible station was reopened on March 21, 2016. History Sco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boylston Station
Boylston station (also signed as Boylston Street) is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, located on the southeast corner of Boston Common at the intersection of Boylston Street and Tremont Street. A southbound street-level stop for the route of the bus rapid transit Silver Line is outside fare control. The station has two island platforms; each has one disused track, making them effectively side platforms. Boylston is not accessible for Green Line trains. Boylston station was opened in 1897 as part of the original segment of the Tremont Street subway. Originally used by streetcars, from 1901 to 1908 it also served Main Line Elevated trains. Unlike other Green Line stations, Boylston has been little modified, and retains much of its original appearance. Two of the original four headhouses have been removed, however, and a sub-passage connecting the platforms has been sealed. Construction of a proposed underground Silver Line statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway
The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving northern and southern suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. Its precursor company was the Bay State Street Railway, which it absorbed in 1919. It was acquired by Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, which still runs some of its routes, in 1968. History The Lynn and Boston Street Railway originally ran into downtown Boston via the Chelsea Bridge and Warren Bridge, running over tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) and its precursors in Charlestown and Boston. When the northern section of the Tremont Street Subway opened in 1898, Lynn and Boston cars were routed into the subway via the Canal Street Incline, looping at Scollay Square station. This continued for 37 years under the Boston and Northern Street Railway, the Bay State Street Railway, and finally the Eastern Mass. The year-long closure of the Chelsea Bridge for repairs in 1935 elim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn And Boston Railroad
The Lynn and Boston Railroad was a streetcar railway chartered for operations between Boston and Lynn, Massachusetts in 1859. Following a number of acquisitions, the railway was a part of a 1901 street railway merger that formed the Boston and Northern Street Railway. The Thomson-Houston Electric Company developed and implemented electrification in Lynn on the Highland Circuit route of the Lynn & Boston, the List of streetcar systems in the United States#Massachusetts, first electrified streetcar in Massachusetts with regular electric service begun November 19, 1888.The Thomson-Houston Road at Lynn, Mass.', The Electrical World, December 8, 1888, page 303Electric Railway at Lynn, Mass.', Electric Power, January 1889, page 21 The electrified cars were able to ascend the steep 8% grade into the Lynn Highlands far easier than even a team of four horses. Acquisitions * Boston and Chelsea Railroad (leased in 1880) * East Middlesex Street Railway (leased in 1893) * Essex Electric Stre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Elevated Railway
The Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) was a Tram, streetcar and rapid transit railroad operated on, above, and below, the streets of Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding communities. Founded in 1894, it eventually acquired the West End Street Railway via lease and merger to become the city's primary mass transit provider. Its modern successor is the state-run Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), which continues to operate in part on infrastructure developed by BERy and its predecessors. History Originally intended to build a short electric Light rail, trolley line to Brookline, the West End Street Railway was organized in 1887. By the next year it had consolidated ownership of a number of Horsecar, horse-drawn streetcar lines, composing a fleet of 7,816 horses and 1,480 rail vehicles. As the system grew, a switch to underground pulled-cable propulsion (modeled after the San Francisco cable car system) was contemplated. After visiting Frank J. Sprague, Frank Spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adams Square (BERy Station)
Adams Square was an underground streetcar station located at Adams Square in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1898 and was used until 1963. History layout of Adams Square station An unusual northbound-only station, Adams Square station was opened with the rest of the northern section of the Tremont Street subway on September 3, 1898. Initially designed for streetcars only, the station was retrofitted in 1901 to also handle Main Line Elevated trains, which ran through the subway until the completion of the Washington Street tunnel in 1908. Thereafter the station reverted to exclusive streetcar use. Scollay Square and Adams Square had similar baroque granite headhouses with four-sided clock towers designed by Charles Brigham. A small exit structure was located to the north, while the Brattle Loop used a separate entrance built into a building at Court Street and Brattle Street. The headhouses of the Tremont Street subway were sharply criticized as "pretentiously m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tremont Street Subway
The Tremont Street subway in Boston's MBTA subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third-oldest still in use worldwide to exclusively use electric traction (after the City and South London Railway in 1890, and Line 1 (Budapest Metro), the Budapest Metro's Line 1 in 1896), opening on September 1, 1897. It was originally built, under the supervision of Howard Adams Carson, Howard A. Carson as chief engineer, to get streetcar lines off the traffic-clogged streets, instead of as a true rapid transit line. It now forms the central part of the Green Line (MBTA), Green Line, connecting Boylston (MBTA station), Boylston Street to Park Street station (MBTA), Park Street and Government Center (MBTA station), Government Center stations. History The tunnel originally served five closely spaced stations: Boylston station, Boylston, Park Street, Government Center station (MBTA), Scollay Square, Adams Square station, Adams Square, and Haymarket station (MBTA), Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tremont House (Boston)
Tremont House (1829 – c.1895), sometimes called the Tremont Hotel, was a hotel designed in 1829 by Isaiah Rogers in Boston, Massachusetts. Notable guests included Davy Crockett and Charles Dickens. History Tremont House was a first-class hotel in Boston designed by Isaiah Rogers. Located on Tremont Street, construction began on July 4, 1828 and the hotel opened on October 16, 1829. For the grand opening, the hotel hosted a banquet for important local guests, charging just $1 per person. The architecture of Tremont House established a reputation for Rogers, who later accepted commissions for many other first-class hotels, including Astor House in New York, Battle House in Mobile, Alabama, Burnet House in Cincinnati, the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, Galt House in Louisville, Kentucky, and the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans. Description The Tremont House was a four-story, granite-faced, Neoclassical architecture, neoclassica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Railroad (Boston)
Metropolitan Railroad was an early street railway in the Greater Boston, Massachusetts area. Formed in 1853 to provide horsecar service between Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts, Roxbury, it quickly expanded to become the largest railway company in the region, with operations over more than ninety miles of Track (rail transport), track and an annual ridership of over forty-two million passengers per year. It ended operations in 1887 as a result of the consolidation plan which united nearly all Boston streetcar lines into West End Street Railway. History Formation Metropolitan Railroad was an early pioneer in an effort to bring street railway service to Boston, which replaced the older Horsebus, horse-drawn omnibus lines which had come to be viewed as expensive and unreliable. The company received its charter on May 21, 1853, by Massachusetts General Court, by which it was enabled to build a rail line connecting downtown Boston with the then-independent town of Roxbury. John P. Obe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Scollay
Colonel William Scollay (1756–1809) was an American developer and militia officer from Boston during the American Revolution who gave his name to the infamous Scollay Square. He was the only surviving son of John Scollay, a strong supporter of colonial rights and a member of Boston's Board of Selectmen in 1764. William was extremely active in the community and was named a Colonel in the Boston Regiment. The Scollays originally came from the Orkney Islands. Scollay gave his name to the area through his ventures in real estate. In 1795 William Scollay purchased a two-story house on Court Street, locally known as Scollay's Building. The name arose as the stage line's last stop was at the Scollay Building and the conductors would yell "Last stop, Scollay's Building! Everybody off." Eventually the name changed to Scollay's Square and was officially recognised by Boston in 1838. The Scollays ended their association with the square in 1868 when they sold Scollay's Building. Three ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scollay Square Brattle Loop Platform 2 (1756–1809), American developer and militia officer
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Scollay is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fred J. Scollay (1923–2015), American actor * Gabrielle Scollay (born 1989), Australian actress * Leonard Scollay (1973–2014), Shetland fiddle player *Mercy Scollay, fiancée of American physician and patriot Joseph Warren * Tom Scollay (born 1987), Australian cricketer *William Scollay Colonel William Scollay (1756–1809) was an American developer and militia officer from Boston during the American Revolution who gave his name to the infamous Scollay Square. He was the only surviving son of John Scollay, a strong supporter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Headhouse
A head house or headhouse may be an enclosed building attached to an open-sided shed, including the piers extending into a waterway, or the aboveground part of a subway station. Markets In the 18th and early 19th centuries, head houses were often civic buildings such as town halls or courthouses located at the end of an open market shed; one example is the former market and firehouse from which Philadelphia's Head House Square takes its name. Mines In mining, a headhouse is the housing of the headworks of various types of machinery used for moving coal to the surface, or men to or from it. Transportation Railroads Since the mid-19th century, in the United States, a head house has often been the part of a passenger train station that does not house the tracks and platforms. Elsewhere, the same part of a station is known as the station building. In particular, it often contains the ticket counters, waiting rooms, toilets and baggage facilities. It might also include the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
